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justice4all writes with this news from eWeek Europe:"One of the defendants in the Pirate Bay trial says he will take his appeal bid to the Supreme Court in Sweden. One of the defendants of the Pirate Bay trial, the Swedish tech magnate Carl Lundstrom, has confirmed he will appeal the sentence imposed by a Swedish appeal court, by taking his case to Sweden's Supreme Court. Lundstrom, along with his three co-defendants – Peter Sunde, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, and Fredrik Neij – were found guilty of being accessories to copyright violations by a Swedish court back in April 2009. The copyright test case against The Pirate Bay was brought by the Swedish subsidiaries of leading music and film companies, including Sony BMG, Universal Music, EMI and Warner Brothers."

From the link in TFA: “The Stockholm district court has today found guilty the four individuals that were charged with accessory to breaching copyright laws,” said the statement from the Stockholm district Court.

Either Sweden has very weird laws or very bad translators. There was no mention of any conviction of breaching copyright laws. How can anyone be an accessory to a "crime" for which no one was convicted?

You can be sure TPB knows it is helping people copy information regardless of legalities.

"Bring down copyright" may have become the agenda, but I'm sure it didn't start out like that. This was just people being friendly by freely sharing information with any and all. It wasn't a problem until the copyright trolls started getting ugly over the loss of their artificial monopolies, and started extending the definition of piracy to treat any minor with a computer the same as a big time manufacturer of counterfeit goods. It is the copyright extremists themselves who have done more than anyone to help us all see how bad an idea copyright law is.

And would it be so bad if copyright was destroyed? What ever will we do without copyright? No more big budget movies, new books made better thanks to excellent editing, professionally produced and polished songs, or so the industry would have us believe. However, we really do not have a choice. I can't see any way to keep copyright viable in its current form. The day isn't far off when the entire Library of Congress will fit on a thumbnail sized memory chip, and in mere seconds can be copied in its entirety, and transmitted anywhere in the world. And most of all, without needing any agency that could monitor the event for any reason, including purposes of collecting a levy or tax. Maybe a network can be watched, though encryption and chaff throw doubt on the ability to make anything of the traffic. But how do you regulate two people who want to swap memory chips? It's like regulating sex between consenting adults. Can't be enforced.